Phillips Petroleum Co. v. Davis

This is an action commenced by the defendants in error against the Phillips Petroleum Company and four other oil producing companies to recover damages to real property alleged to have been caused by the pollution of a stream known as Big Beaver creek, which flows in a southerly direction along the east boundary of the land involved.

The parties will be. referred to as plaintiffs and defendants, as in the trial court.

Plaintiffs claimed $220 damages because of loss of ihe usable value of said stream as a source of water supply for their livestock, and $2,700 damage to their land by reason of…